Honours were few and far between for Australia’s web and newspaper printers in tonight’s National Print Awards.

A pearl of a campaign for Paspaley drew only a couple of bronze medals for Offset Alpine – one for a casebound book and the other in the multi-piece productions and campaigns category.

Showing the breadth of its talents, Offset Alpine also won silver in digitally-printed book printing for Mass Media Studios and bronze in impact, sensory and direct mail for the Avon Campaign 2/2014. They also scored gold – the only medal awarded – for web offset publications with a cover price, for Russh Magazine #50.

Honours were evenly shared in heatset web-offset, Inprint taking the gold for POCO The Super Home Market for J & C Advertising, Offset Alpine Printing for Peter Alexander’s Mother's Day catalogue, and Adelaide’s Cadillac Printing for City Farmers Winter Catalogue.

Imprint also won a gold for saddle-stitched booklets, catalogues and magazines for the Carla Zampatti Spring Summer 2013 catalogue; and bronze for packaging for a Weight Watchers 360° project undertaken for the Herald & Weekly Times.

In the coldset categories, two Fairfax Media print centres took the only medals awarded – an Oil & Gas Review supplement for the Australian winning gold for Rural Press Mandurah, and the Examiner Print Centre in Launceston taking silver for Rural Wit & Wisdom.

Some 400 guests who gathered ringside at The Westin in Sydney were entertained by broadcaster, interviewer and author Libby Gorr and ‘auctioneer’ Will Fowles. The ‘knockout’ entertainment also included ventriloquist Dean Atkinson.

On our homepage: Fairfax Media Printing's Troy Mansell with DIC Australia managing director Ian Johns

Right: Entertainer Elle McFeast who hosted the awards